Romans 2:25
For circumcision indeed profits, if thou keep the law; but if thou art a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
24For, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.
Cross References
Romans 2:23Thou that makest thy boast in law, through the transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also,
Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29
The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →